glad to hear you're ok JP. REST UP and don't push yourself man!!
isn't it funny how so many of these threads get hijacked
this goes from a car accident thread to suggestions on what new car to buy. well, wtf, i guess i throw in my 2 cents [img]tongue.gif[/img] :
unless the gas rates down there in Arkansas are lower than up here in NJ ($1.76 is the cheapest by me) i wouldn't suggest a SUV cause they can guzzle gas. the town and countrys are nice: lots of space, cool features, etc. so sry about that loss. my mom's got a dodge grand caravan (2000? i think so) and she loves it. it's basically a town and country minus all the extras.
z: as for the EPA cars, i never really understood them completely either. My dad's an OSC with the EPA, was part of the initial 9/11 search and then oversaw the 9/11 clean-up for 10+ month. His branch of region 2 (NJ, NY, CT, and puerto rico/USVI, etc.) have jeeps, suburbans...and station wagons. lol. if u saw some of the pics from some of the sites he's been too, you'd understand why they have the jeeps and the other SUVs. i was like what's with the big cars? then he showed me the pics and i was like, "o. gotcha." like with 9/11, he was parking on rubble (in a Jeep Cherokee) for about a month until they set up a parking lot. kinda hard to do that with a hybrid or small car. [img]tongue.gif[/img] it does seem weird to me, tho, that almost all of the work cars are SUVs and Jeeps...and station wagons. I would think that for the sites that have somewhat level parking, they'd have small cars, like the Gulf or a neon or startus or something more fuel efficient, but hey! that's the federal government for ya [img]tongue.gif[/img]